Sexuality and cultures - Female Genital Mutilations: the results of a social and health care research work
Aldo Morrone, Alessandra Sannella (edited by)
Sessualità e culture
Mutilazioni genitali femminili: risultati di una ricerca in contesti socio-sanitari
(Sexuality and cultures - Female Genital Mutilations: the results of a social and health care research work)
Franco Angeli, Milan 2010
About the book
Female Genital Mutilations are traditional practices that can be found today also in immigration countries. Young girls and women involved in this phenomenon are estimated to be about 130 millions. They face severe and irreversible risks for their health and suffer from the difficult social and psychological consequences originating from the practice.
False alarms among the society, mass media sensationalism and prejudices have often offered a warped idea of FGM diffusion, by creating walls between health care operators, transcultural mediators and the victims of the practice. This book reports the results of a research work, implemented in collaboration with the Equal Opportunity Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, on the perception and the meaning attributed to female genital mutilations by health care operators and transcultural mediators.
The aware and professional participation of health care operators, together with innovative and multidisciplinary intervention strategies, will be the bases for a future enhanced interpretation and offer of services for the health needs of the new citizens.
Contents
Introduction
by Maria Rosaria Carfagna
Foreword
by Isabella Rauti
Acknowledgments
by Aldo Morrone and Alessandra Sannella
The right to health of women between the North and the South of the world and female genital mutilations
by Aldo Morrone
Traditional practices: rite or crime?
by Alessandra Sannella
The space of thinkable thoughts: from the legitimation to the abandon of female genital mutilations
by Pietro Vulpiani
Female genital mutilations: between history and legend
by Aldo Morrone and Gennaro Franco
Regulations
by Anna Novara
Action Research
by Alessandra Sannella
Research results
by Luca Salvati and Marco Zitti
Treating and healing FGM-related complications
by Omar Hassen Abdulcadir, Rossella Capecchi, Lucrezia Catania, Alessandro Gattai, Andrea Guazzini and Valentina Scarselli
Cultural trends in the Roman context
by Elöise Longo
Migrant women in Sicily
by Rita Lima
Turin and “invisible” FGM
by Micaela Basagni and Alessio Pitidis
Research study in three Apulian cities: Foggia, Bari and Lecce
by Klodiana Cuka and Annamaria Di Miscio
Post-word, that is to say, culture's challenge
by Paolo De Nardis
Conclusions
by Aldo Morrone and Alessandra Sannella
Bibliography
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